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Artist, Block Carver, Applying Sizing (Eshi, hangashi, dosa-biki), from the series The Cultivation of Brocade Prints, a Famous Product of Edo (Edo meibutsu nishiki-e kosaku)

Kitagawa Utamaro · About 1803

Provenance

Ownership history

Joseph R. Herod. Florence Higinbotham Crane (1870–1949; also Mrs. Richard Teller Crane, Jr.), Chicago; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 17, 1939.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Milan, Italy, Arthemisia and Palazzo Reale, "Ukiyoe, Il Mondo Fluttuante" at Palazzo Reale from 6 February 2004 – 30 May 2004.
SOC9356, 7/26/1995 - The British Museum, Department of Japanese Antiquities, London, England, for exhibit, "Kitagawa Utamaro", The British Museum, 8/31 - 10/22/1995 and Chiba City Musuem of Art, Chiba City, Japan, 11/3 - 12/17/1995.

Literature

Calza, Gain Carlo. "Ukiyoe". Phaidon Press Limited, 2005, Page 472, color plate 283, catalog number V.48.

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